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<p>E3 needs to be more of an open event.</p>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:18:45 +0000ashlacomment 142926 at http://gamepolitics.comRe: E3 Relevancy Probed by L.A. Times, Cnethttp://gamepolitics.com/2008/07/14/e3-relevancy-probed-la-times-cnet#comment-142855
<p><em>And gentlemen in England now a-bed <br />Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, <br />And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks <br />That fought with us upon E3's day</em></p><p>I occasionally thought it might be good to go to an E3 but then I saw footage from the floor and realised that my claustrophobia would flare pretty badly in that crush of people. And then it all turned booth babe focussed and I lost interest. As I said, I have no problem with tits, half of my friends have tits and the other half ARE tits.</p>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:45:03 +0000Aliasalphacomment 142855 at http://gamepolitics.comRe: E3 Relevancy Probed by L.A. Times, Cnethttp://gamepolitics.com/2008/07/14/e3-relevancy-probed-la-times-cnet#comment-142661
<p>We agree ofcourse, and <em>(sadly</em><em>)</em> they aren't doing anything as awesome as Hot Zerg Lesbian Sex Squad <em>(HZLSS will now enter into common acronym use).</em> I guess my point, buried deep under the sillyness was that having some booth babe is fine. For my sake they could take it to the cream cheese wrestling apex I described, but I understand that is not for everyone.</p><p>It's not just the booth babes. It's...the feeling? The atmosphere around the event? There's expo-like things going on all the time. There was a tractor expo here recently, though I had no word of Tractor booth babes <em>(again, sadly).</em> Which is why I think E3 should distinguish itself as not just an expo...but THE expo. Should make people that weren't there wish they had been. If it's &quot;just&quot; showing footage anyone can get to the material within 24 hours of it being shown at the event. But if the event itself has something you can't record or photograph to experience you've got something unique and awesome. Stuff like expo only swag is one way to go as well.<br />I don't doubt E3 is still a great expo...just not &quot;TEH Greatest!&quot;<br />Now that I'm starting to talk to people that were at ActiBlizz's World Wide Invitational they are describing kindof what I mean. It wasn't just the material at the scene that made them love it, it was the whole atmosphere <em>(granted, E3 is not Blizzcon and it shouldn't be. But you get what I mean though?).</em></p><p>To be honest I never watched Naked News, saw a few trailers when it was airing at first and thought the idea and the success it <em>(back then atleast)</em> had was fun. But I could've guessed they would most likely not have cutting edge reporting =D</p><p>And that's an awesome Coke ad, it has my vote.</p>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:12:43 +0000Acecomment 142661 at http://gamepolitics.comRe: E3 Relevancy Probed by L.A. Times, Cnethttp://gamepolitics.com/2008/07/14/e3-relevancy-probed-la-times-cnet#comment-142648
<p>Hey hey hey now! I want to see the zerg lesbian sex squad, all those tentacles,&nbsp;it'd be like live action hentai, all you'd need is a japanese schoolgirl in unusually provaocative terran marine armour. As simultaneously awesome and creepy as that is, I don't want to see it at a computer game trade show, computer PORN trade show sure...</p><p>Hmm this magical cheese intrgues me. The description of that ad reminds me of a Bill Hicks routine &quot;<em>I'll tell you the commercial they'd like to do, if they could, and I guarantee you, if they could, they'd do this, right here. Here's the woman's face, beautiful. Camera pulls back, naked breast. Camera pulls back, she's totally naked. Legs apart. Two fingers, right here, and it just says, &quot;Drink Coke.&quot; Now I don't know the connection here, but goddamn if Coke isn't on my shopping list that week</em>&quot;. I used to watch naked news when it was on paytv and I think that it's very sad that I noticed that the news was obviously several months old &amp; they were showing repeats...</p>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:12:17 +0000Aliasalphacomment 142648 at http://gamepolitics.comRe: E3 Relevancy Probed by L.A. Times, Cnethttp://gamepolitics.com/2008/07/14/e3-relevancy-probed-la-times-cnet#comment-142636
<p>*cough* Minnesota Game Law *cough*</p><p>Everyone seems very quick to throw the ESA under the bus, and for what? A Fox News story? Get over it, acting on the legislative side scores more points.&nbsp; </p>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:41:40 +0000T5comment 142636 at http://gamepolitics.comRe: E3 Relevancy Probed by L.A. Times, Cnethttp://gamepolitics.com/2008/07/14/e3-relevancy-probed-la-times-cnet#comment-142635
They should bring it in-line with the modern ESA. Bring in some DEA agents to kick in the doors and strip search people for mod chips or something.Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:41:31 +0000Anonymouscomment 142635 at http://gamepolitics.comRe: E3 Relevancy Probed by L.A. Times, Cnethttp://gamepolitics.com/2008/07/14/e3-relevancy-probed-la-times-cnet#comment-142633
<p><em>&quot;Hell if it'd contined the way it had, gears of war 2 would probably have been announced by the Locust Bikini Team, fallout 3 would have been brought to you by the victorias secret anti-radiation lingerie and there'd have been a special starcraft 2 presentation by the hot zerg lesbian sex squad.&quot;</em><br /><br />I question your sexual orientation at this point for not wanting that...I'd do insane things to see the zerg lesbian sex squad! =D<br /><br />But all gayness aside, I think a better solution would have been to move the babes to either side of the whatever awesome thing they're showing off instead of axing them alltogether. <a href="http://www.nakednews.com">Nakednews</a> has done this to some effect as well as most ads these days. I saw an ad for a new line of cream cheese which had some babes running around, splashin some water and then ripping off their tops. Then a guy comes along with a tray of cheese and they go all over him, noming the cheese in a most provacative fashion, up flashes product name, end of ad. Needless to say I had to try it out, if only for the chance I'd be pounced by wild cheese hungry ladies!<br /><br />But ofcourse I know what you mean. They shouldn't fill their booth with boob <em>(or brawn, lets be fair)</em>, totally obscuring anything they might have. But the spectacle of it made it so successful. Gamers are generally not the cocktail party type, goddamn do those parties suck. I'd rather have some members of the Locust Bikini Team and Hot Zerg lesbian sex squad wrestle it out in a giant vat of cream cheese, with billboards showing trailers for new games and a man wearing a Master Chief suit handing out tiny Pip-boy hors d'oeuvres while a techno remix of the Super Mario theme blasts from loudspeakers hanging from chains...that are on FIRE!<br /><br />That is what E3 should be in a perfect world, not this university lecture, cocktail party thing it seems to be headed towards.</p>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:07:12 +0000Acecomment 142633 at http://gamepolitics.comRe: E3 Relevancy Probed by L.A. Times, Cnethttp://gamepolitics.com/2008/07/14/e3-relevancy-probed-la-times-cnet#comment-142624
<p>Since when is it news when Adam Sessler is enthusiastic?&nbsp; I mean the guy's emotion dial is stuck on 'enthusiastic'.&nbsp; If a pile of crap was marketed as a game Sessler would be enthusiastic about it.&nbsp; This guy - this hack -&nbsp;embodies all that is unholy and wrong about gaming reporting.</p>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:33:31 +0000Anonymouscomment 142624 at http://gamepolitics.comRe: E3 Relevancy Probed by L.A. Times, Cnethttp://gamepolitics.com/2008/07/14/e3-relevancy-probed-la-times-cnet#comment-142615
<p>Well yeah, that was my plan but for some weird reason they failed to consult me!</p>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:28:43 +0000Aliasalphacomment 142615 at http://gamepolitics.comRe: E3 Relevancy Probed by L.A. Times, Cnethttp://gamepolitics.com/2008/07/14/e3-relevancy-probed-la-times-cnet#comment-142606
<p>I really hope not - PAX always seemed like more of a fun event, like a carnival, wherein people came to enjoy a common love of gaming. A no-pressure community&nbsp;shindig - sure there's booths and whatnot there but they aren't&nbsp;the main attraction- it's well balanced is what I'm trying to say.&nbsp;I don't want to see that spoiled. E3 was always &quot;BLLLAAARG LOOK AT MY GRAPHIX!!1!&quot; or &quot;I'm a 45 year old twice divorced marketing director, I've never played a game in my life but here I am bro, buy this! ummm...get at me dogg? No wait - holla at your boy? Hang on, I need to go check with the guys who did the dialogue for NBA Street...&quot;</p><p>But if anything is going to replace E3 I suppose it's the best option. Either that or they'll go for &quot;E4&quot; by adding &quot;Extreme&quot; to the end of it and everybody has to ride around on skateboards drinking Red Bulls...</p>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:56:24 +0000Clevercomment 142606 at http://gamepolitics.com